Re: shared - i need it to be useful

[Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 18:46:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
I've said this a bunch of times, there are 2 rules:
1. shared inhibits read and write access to members
2. `shared` methods must be threadsafe

From there, shared becomes interesting and useful.

Oh God...

void atomicInc(shared int* i) { /* ... */ }

Now what? There are no "methods" for ints, only UFCS. Those 
functions can be as safe as you like, but if you allow implicit 
promotion of int* to shared int*, you *allow implicit races*.